paternal aunt - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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paternal aunt (plural paternal aunts) (This entry is a translation hub.)
Several languages distinguish between blood paternal aunts (someone's father's sister) and in-law paternal aunts (someone's father's sister-in-law).
the sister or sister-in-law of someone's father
- Albanian: hallë (sq) f
- Arabic: عَمَّة (ar) f (ʕamma)
- Armenian: հորաքույր (hy) (horakʻuyr)
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܥܲܡܬܵܐ f (ʿamtā)
- Azerbaijani: bibi (az), mama (az) (dialectal)
- Bengali: ফুফু (bn) f (phuphu) (father's sister), চাচী f (caci) (father's brother's wife)
- Catalan: tia (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: (father's sister) 姑 (zh) (gū), 姑媽 / 姑妈 (zh) (gūmā), 姑姑 (zh) (gūgu), 姑母 (zh) (gūmǔ), (father’s elder brother’s wife) 伯母 (zh) (bómǔ), (father’s younger brother’s wife) 叔母 (zh) (shúmǔ), 嬸母 / 婶母 (zh) (shěnmǔ), 嬸嬸 / 婶婶 (zh) (shěnshen)
- Teochew: (father's sister) 阿姑 (a1 gou1), 姑 (gou1), (father's elder brother's wife) 阿姆 (a1 m2), 姆 (m2), (father's younger brother's wife) 阿嬸 / 阿婶 (a1 sim2), 嬸 / 婶 (sim2)
- Czech: teta (cs) f
- Danish: faster (da) c (blood paternal aunt), tante (da) c (in-law paternal aunt, informal)
- Dutch: tante (nl) f
- Esperanto: onklino (eo)
- Estonian: tädi (et)
- Ewe: tasi, te
- Finnish: täti (fi), isän sisko; sedän vaimo (in-law)
- French: tante (fr) f, tatie (fr) f (informal)
- Georgian: მამიდა (ka) (mamida)
- German: Tante (de) f väterlicherseits
- Greek: θεία (el) f (theía); θεια (el) f (theia), θείτσα (el) f (theítsa) (affectionate terms but also pejoratives)
- Hausa: gwaggo
- Hebrew: דּוֹדָה (he) f (dóda)
- Hindi: बुआ (hi) f (buā) (father's sister), चाची (hi) f (cācī) (wife of father’s younger brother), ताई (hi) f (tāī) (wife of father’s elder brother)
- Hungarian: apai (ágról való) nagynéni
- Icelandic: föðursystir (is) f
- Irish: aintín f
- Italian: zia (it) f
- Japanese: おば (ja) (oba)
- Kashmiri: پۄپھ (ks) (pọph) (father's sister), پیٚچھَنؠ (ks) (pechan') (father’s brother’s wife)
- Komo: bbasʉma
- Korean: 고모 (ko) (gomo)
- Krisa: wini
- Kurdish:
- Latin: amita (la), thia f
- Macedonian: тетка (mk) f (tetka), стрина f (strina), нина f (nina), тетка по татко f (tetka po tatko)
- Meriam: apu
- Navajo: abízhí
- Northern Sami: siessá
- Norwegian: tante (no) m or f, faster (no) m or f
- Nupe: macinmà
- Pashto: عمه (ps) f (amma)
- Persian: عمه (fa) ('amme)
- Polish: ciotka ojczysta (pl) f (blood), stryjenka (pl) f (in-law)
- Portuguese: tia (pt) f
- Romanian: mătușă după tată f
- Russian: тётя (ru) f (tjótja), тётя по отцу́ f (tjótja po otcú), тётя по отцо́вской ли́нии f (tjótja po otcóvskoj línii)
- Sami:
- Lule Sami: siessá
- Sanskrit: पितृव्या f (pitṛvyā)
- Scottish Gaelic: piuthar-athar f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Seri: aac
- Slovene: teta (sl) f
- Somali: eedo (so)
- Spanish: tía (es) f
- Swahili: shangazi (sw)
- Swedish: faster (sv) c, tant (sv) c
- Tamil: அத்தை (ta) (attai); (in-law) பெரியம்மா (ta) (periyammā) (elder), சித்தி (ta) (citti) (younger)
- Taos: į̀ęmęʼéna
- Tày: a, à (blood paternal aunt, younger); a lùa (in-law paternal aunt, younger)
- Telugu: అత్త (te) (atta)
- Tibetan: ཨ་ནེ (a ne)
- Turkish: hala (tr), yenge (tr) (in-law)
- Urdu: پھپو (phuppo)
- West Frisian: muoike (fy)
- Zazaki: ’em